JFC if they're too stupid to read a bouldering grade with regard to a boulder problem without confusing it for a technical grade they're probably too stupid to walk to the crag let alone read the guidebook.Or do you think people would look at Mecca and think it's a boulder problem because they don't distinguish between F and f?
john gill's b grades? now there's a grading system.
Fatdoc, I think you're getting a bit carried away. The decision was made for solid reasons, I wasn't in total support but the logic was clear, and it wasn't made in a pub between three people. These are not aimed solely at boulderers and ultimately having two identical-but-different grading scales in one book would be confusing. Fashion has gone the other way since, and if the choice was made again maybe it would be different. But I stand by the original decision and the choice to make the series consistent. Calling Grimer a wanker might be fair if making that call had been his only contribution. In light of what he has contributed it makes you look a twat frankly.
One set of numbers and letters is as arbitrary as the nextGood effort on the guide Grimer, look forward to seeing it
look mate.no direct offence intended.as has been said on the www. by you in the past.. the grades in your BMC guides were decided by a flip of a coin / pint in the pub.and I fundamentally disagree.grit is a weather worn sedimentary rock.. like what font is...and like sooo few of us go to heuco.. and we near all get to go got font.your glib responses to " why didnt you use the font system" last time round havnt been forgotten..I know I speak for many.. not just on the niche of UKB.we WANT font grades for the peak guides.. and the BMC ( thankfully) are still THE defiinative guides.yet, you let us down..I stand by the
That there's a large number of idiots out there doesn't mean that we should pander to them.
so just write 7A and 7a
Infact I'll go to whatever meetings necessary to put that point across in concrete if need be
QuoteInfact I'll go to whatever meetings necessary to put that point across in concrete if need beUnless, of course, they're on a wednesday?
Being a geek, I'd go for a grading system that uses decimal values, so that every problem can be put into an exact difficulty ordering with a weighting to apply a morpho function to
Quote from: mr__j5 on April 16, 2010, 03:29:22 pmBeing a geek, I'd go for a grading system that uses decimal values, so that every problem can be put into an exact difficulty ordering with a weighting to apply a morpho function to Just apply the Yosemite Decimal System prepended with a B then.
Works well indoors.